PORTFOLIO

from Ellena Wong GSD MLA I AP 2023 Portfolio

by Ellena Wong

POST-COVID HEALING SPACE

Ellena Oi Ling Wong

The Realm Of Opacity

Seeing how opacity controls circulation master plan 1:6000

Tree As Opacity Control

ZOOMED-IN SITE PLAN 1:800

Flowscapes: Iceland Bathhouse - Crystallizing body as flow

Instructors: James A. Lord, Roderick Wyllie | Individual work

Geothermal Landscapes of Energy and Rejuvenation | Harvard GSD Studio 2022

Situated next to a melting glacier in Iceland, the project features a pilgrimage of disappearing glacier to experience the flow of water. Visitors are guided by light, the flow of rivers, subtle water level changes as well as water temperature changes in the rock plunges. It is an journey of the fragile sublime.

Do you flow like glacier Do you flow like water

Human, rock, a tiny drip, converge, diverge overcome, overflow with stamina, with friction.

Crystallize this moment free your spirit flow as water body as flow

Rock Plunges in the natural lake - an experience of the hot and cold water

Acushnet Valley AllianceThe Fusion Menu

Instructor: Rosalea Monacella | Individual work

From Off-Shoring to Near Shore: Littoral

Landscapes at Work | Harvard GSD Studio

cooking island - solidarity of the livings

The Realm of Opacity

Shanghai Post-Expo Site MasterPlanning, Shanghai, China

Shanghai Master Planning Studio

2018 Fall | Instructor: Tiger Lin

Individual Work

After the legend of Shanghai Expo, the site is left with vast empty land surrounded by barriers. These boundaries have different materialities and opacities, thereby changing our perceptions of space, in particularly the ownership of space. Through observations, boundaries of the site are catergorized into temporal, soft and hard boundaries and they have various opacities.

While concrete barrier has higher opacity which implies privacy ,wire fence has higher permeability and hence gives the idea of semi-public. Even public space has boundaries for maintenance reason, soft landscape elements will usually be applied. Boundaries are closely related to land use. Thus, it has different functions at work, they could be for directional guide,showing ownership and territory of land,for practical maintenance and for safety purpose. another problem of the site is the monotonic nature of programs due to unreasonably large extend of land (around 200-400m). This problem is made worse by the barriers. Although boundaries are useful for the land owner, they limit our interactions with the site as it only includes visual experience for the pedestrians.